Baffled at this movie's score...

Rating: 6/10 (22 July 2013)

Well, where to start ?
This movie was mediocre, really mediocre, probably one of Del Toro's worst so far.
The plot could've been written by an elementary school kid, acting was terrible (besides Idris Elba) with over stereotyped characters and pre-school dialogues.
The only good part could've been the robot vs kaiju fights, if : 1) There weren't, like, all shot during the night and under the rain 2) The use of 3D wouldn't have been so poor 3) The script of the fights wasn't so poor : "oh wait i got a giant sword on my frame, i just forgot to use it"
This movie takes over all the clichés you could get from a direct-to-TV Japanese robot movie / anime, from the ridiculously cliché and overplayed characters, the linear, over predictable script and the ridiculous monsters (jap generic name) and robot (German to sound "cool", like Japanese do).
So, yeah, if u guys expect to see a B/ ScyFy grade Japanese robot movie, you can watch this one, or the bazillion movies japs already have made over 30 years.
If you expect to see a good movie, then go watch something else.
I know that Del Toro wanted to enter the Asian market with this movie but, honestly, Asian market ain't japan... Being Asian here, and having watched it with an Asian crew (mostly), can't say anyone was impressed.
Guillermo should probably have hooked up with Mamoru Oshii to do this thing in anime version, it would probably have been much better.